Got a bit more progess with the port of OPL to the Series 60 SDK. The alpha release is missing any decent user interaction, because there's no support for MENUs or DIALOGs.
There are two main reasons for this: firstly, I was in a rush trying to get an alpha build out for the Symbian Exposium last month, and secondly, the T9 FEP (front end processor, aka the bit of software that converts numeric keypad presses into words) doesn't integrate with OPL very well. :-(
Still, it was good being able to revisit the menu code, and it turned out that getting a menu displayed wasn't that difficult after all. Just a couple of lines of code changed and bang, there it was, an OPL menu on the S60 emulator.
However, getting the menu cursor to move, or picking a option, or even closing the menu wasn't working very well. And my 7650 has gone back to be repaired, so I've not been able to test the changes on a real device (remember: if it's not tested on hardware, it's not tested, period.)
And looking ahead a bit, there's a number of bug reports building up on SourceForge.net. Think it would be wise to get this menu stuff out the way, then get the bug count back to zero. Any volunteers want to help? ;-)
Posted by ricka at May 11, 2003 11:04 PM